Like so many science-fiction horror movies, Flatliners in both its iterations is about the hazards of playing God — or at least, the hazards of playing God via sloppy research protocols.
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The fear is we're playing God with our own genes.
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It's more like playing Noah than playing God, McCauley says.
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In other words playing God, is God's least favorite game.
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No, this isn't "playing God," the scientists behind the project say.
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There has to be a better answer than just playing God?
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Her book "Frankenstein" is about the consequences of man playing God.
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"When you build a dam, you are playing God," he said.
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Some are horrified at the prospect of people "playing God" with reproduction.
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Chambers ended the event by playing "God Bless America" on his harmonica.
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Playing god has never been a particularly strange ambition for Silicon Valley.
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In other words: We're already playing God, we're just lousy at it.
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"When you build a dam, you are playing God," one engineer said.
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But it's not sitting well with Spence, who accuses him of playing God.
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Miriam Nielsen But others see geoengineering as a reckless attempt at playing God.
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In creating artificial intelligence, humankind is not only playing God, we're also creating gods.
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If developers are playing God, Unity defines the laws of nature within their creations.
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There's a long and varied list of criticisms: It is akin to playing God.
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This is a familiar tale: man creates monster, monster runs amuck, man regrets playing God.
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YouTube is not the Star Chamber — stop playing God & silencing those voices you disagree with.
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Here King touches on the larger red thread that weaves throughout her work: playing god.
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Resident Evil 24 is the game I kept thinking about while playing God of War.
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Scientists playing God is always good copy, even if the creations were, as yet, mostly microbes.
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As such, Mr Jaquemet draws a parallel between modern scientists "playing God" and the biblical creator.
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Franny, is a vainglorious manipulator of other people accustomed to getting his way, often by playing God.
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It includes a useful summary of current attitudes among scientists to techniques commonly known as "playing God".
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"They are playing god—and they can, because they are an incredibly wealthy private organization," she says.
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And having brought one cat back from the dead, what's to stop Lewis from playing God once more?
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Lisa Wesel of Maine spoke for many who argued that trying to extend life was like playing God.
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Some groups oppose it, arguing that researchers are playing God by moving genes from one species to another.
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This isn't just a series about playing God — it's a series about what it means to be God.
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Many people, though not me, will also consider questions of "naturalness" or "playing God" to be real and serious.
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In 1973, people were concerned that scientists were playing God, concerned with ethical issues and issues of public safety.
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"You do hear people making references to GMOs, playing God, and 'frankenfoods'—that sort of thing," Post told me.
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The New York Yankees began the practice of playing "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch following the attacks.
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Synthetic biology smacks to many of "playing God": regulators will have a big say in how quickly the technology is adopted.
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Francis stands over the paintball field, playing God with the mock buildings, to ensure they fit the images in his head.
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"We are not playing God," a scientist reportedly involved with the Chinese and Russian experiment told the Post anonymously on Monday.
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But it might be wise to debate the matter now, just in case this time people really are unknowingly playing God.■
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But playing God is just too much fun, especially when you can create a golem, or a body without a soul.
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" 2003 | "Dire Wounds, a New Face, a Glimpse in a Mirror" 2006 | "Frankenstein, Meet Your Forefathers" 2007 | "Are Scientists Playing God?
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To those who would argue that such a quest is arrogantly playing God, he says simply: "This is what we do."
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"I think it's the opposite [of playing God], actually," he said, sitting in his office, a converted shipping container, at the sanctuary.
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We have the Jurassic franchise to warn us about the dangers of not just playing God but commercializing our frolics as well.
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These powers are compared to playing God in the manga series, but we see a clear connection to black magick here, too.
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The other is a more visceral dislike of interfering with the process of reproduction, perhaps best encapsulated in the phrase "playing God".
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As Andy Crouch points out in his book "Playing God," idolatry is seductive because in the first phase it seems to work.
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Only when presented with enough evidence would Mr. Högel confess, Mr. Schmidt said, adding that the nurse had reveled in playing God.
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Paul went onto accuse media organizations of "playing God" by setting "arbitrary" criteria that doesn't take into account polling margin of error.
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Some worry about playing God—though discarding an opportunity to save millions of lives in order to defend a principle is itself unethical.
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There's a long history of horror stories about hubristic scientists playing God and suffering the consequences, but that's not what's going on here.
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Sydney Driscoll (Chloe Bridges) is actually a pawn of A.D.'s, despite all of her claims otherwise, and A.D. is actually playing god.
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T. (Extraterrestrial)" to lament, "Man it kills me / Taking that life is like taking a shit / Hit or miss, niggas are playing God.
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If Ethan, at first, seems blithely oblivious to conventional wisdom against playing God, the director, Anthony Scott Burns, is better at following rules.
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At the time, one breeder in Texas, Scott Accomazzo, said he had been accused of playing God, and his Christianity had been questioned.
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From the beginning of the show, we've gotten the sense that you're slightly detached from humanity, and like meddling with lives and playing god.
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Although allegations of playing God are two a penny in debates about breakthrough technologies, with gene drives they do feel better-founded than usual.
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News outlets are now labeling him "Hysterical Freeman" ... bringing in psychiatrists who say he has a "Messianic complex" from playing God and the President.
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Russian media has called Freeman an "American propaganda mouthpiece" with a "Messianic complex" that he picked up playing God in that Jim Carrey movie.
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YouTube is not the Star Chamber—stop playing God & silencing those voices you disagree with," tweeted the Texas Republican, adding: "This will not end well.
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Today, the Department of Defense actually pays sporting franchises to do patriotic things during the games, including playing "God Bless America" and saluting our troops.
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But to impose one's own values on another, without regard for that person's pain or poor quality of life, is high-handed and indeed playing God.
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In this sweeping, slightly-vertiginous tour of miniature worlds, an artist who's worked on Dreamworks films shows us what playing God in virtual reality can do.
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You feel like you're playing god, because you are in a way — you're creating a world for somebody, a world in which they can then play.
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"It's a question of how much playing God will actually work," said Peter B. Moyle, a distinguished professor emeritus of biology at the University of California, Davis.
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If we really are going to get the message about playing God for profit, then the Jurassic series needs to keep embracing the horror at its core.
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The BBC reported that the Rossiya 24 news channel had assembled psychiatrists who attributed his comments to a Messianic complex resulting from playing God in several films.
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They're both about futuristic theme parks gone wrong, crafted on the basis of semi-realistic science, and led by arrogant, frosty-haired white men playing God-like figures.
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And the main reason for that is that they essentially have the same vaguely hand-waved morals about corporate overreach and the dangers of playing God with DNA.
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D. stopped playing games and started playing god" Ali made the decision to have an abortion because she "wants to be in control, and wants her life back.
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Chapter titles like "Brave New World" and "Playing God" set the tone, as does a shrewd score and some well-used animation that illustrates the basics of DNA.
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In the 1970's, the fear was of doctors playing God by helping families conceive through virtual fertilization, and no one was smat or harmed in any way.
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"Some argue that enactment of (this bill) equates to the government authorizing taking life, or 'playing God' with the lives of our citizens," Mills said, according to her office.
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" And a Russian TV channel accused Freeman of falling prey to "a Messianic complex resulting from playing God or the president in several films, not to mention 'drug abuse.
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"I'm Christian and I don't believe we need to be playing God, deciding who gets born and who gets aborted," said Caroline Reddy, 32, a mother of two children.
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Meanwhile, some believe that the sheer scale of Google's business makes this move feel a bit like it's playing God with what users will or will not see online.
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What he's saying: For too long, AI hands have been hiding in their basements, in effect playing God by deciding which technology is ultimately released to the masses, Felten said.
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So that was my first ... I did a piece that ended up being a cover story called "Playing God in the Garden" for the Times magazine in '219 or something.
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We're told that Strange playing around with an apple could rip the multiverse apart — and then there are no consequences whatsoever for him full-on playing God with the timestream.
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While American parents may be counting their blessings that health care in the United States has not yet reached the point of the government playing God, their relief is premature.
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" And to people refusing "to play God" by withdrawing a breathing tube, she asks whether "they were playing God by keeping [a relative] alive when her body was actively dying.
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During a demonstration at this week's Nvidia GTC conference, I joked with a company engineer that he was playing God each time he hit a switch to change the driving conditions.
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Religiously minded critics claim "we're playing God", says Claudius Gros, a physicist at Goethe University in Frankfurt, who has floated the idea of scattering photosynthesising bacteria and algae on extrasolar planets.
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Here is a 22-year-old version of the beloved actress rocking a buzz cut at the premiere for her movie, "Playing God," in New York City back in 1997 (left).
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Not, however...a suitably blue-blazered, short-haired, white-collar, golf-playing God but a God who had shifted over to the side of so-called barbarism, a wrathful, alien, brown-skinned deity.
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Glover isn't the only cameo in this video from her debut CTRL, in fact, you'll see SZA's mom, Audrey Rowe, in all-white at the two and a half minute mark playing God.
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" For a moment, it's as if Russo has forgotten his own earlier advice: "If playing God scares you," he declares, fully confident of his omniscient powers as a novelist, "there are other professions.
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She had failed to reckon with the raw pleasure that playing God over others could afford, and so had overemphasized the role of systemically enforced thoughtlessness in preparing individuals to execute enormous crimes.
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If you've ever toyed with the idea of playing God and creating your own world, you'll be pleased to know there's a way to do so with no real-world consequences: Sid Meier's Civilization games.
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The New York Yankees, who began regularly playing "God Bless America" in the middle of their seventh innings in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, announced they would no longer play Smith's recording.
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But since then, the hubris of "playing God" has been freely invoked in debates over the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and just about any other technology that threatens to overrun its human creators.
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Unfortunately, what we see at Forging The Gods is the recorded footage of the original run of the performance, so we have to forgo playing God by, say, making someone's lighting system annoyingly flicker on and off.
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Alan Zweibel supplies the sugary filling in the Series A sandwich with "Playing God," a comic interlude in which the Supreme Being (Bill Buell) punishes a callow doctor (Dana Watkins) by taunting him into a game of squash.
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" When, a few days later, Rose found fault with Fred—"wicked bossy bastard, playing God with the menu"—I knew that Fred would have a reply, and he did: "Her pushy husband sticking his camera in my face.
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Starring a slick-haired Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman at her most serene, Gattaca is a deserved cult classic, a highlight in the hubristic-humans-playing-God subgenre, the urtext for any discussion of the slippery slope toward eugenics.
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" In the afternoon on Wednesday, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power released an even more biting assessment of the regime, which she said was "playing God, deciding who they try to starve and who, for now, they don't.
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All that prompted him to go on a tear against the media, accusing television networks hosting the debates of "playing God" by setting criteria that threatened to squeeze out candidates separated by the margin of error of most polls.
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It's awesome that genetic engineering can be used to eradicate diseases and lengthen life spans, but it will also pose unanswerable questions on playing God and transform the ol' baby-making part of life into some sort of car buying process.
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Some think geoengineering is like playing God The series begins with David Keith, a Harvard professor of applied physics and public policy who has arguably done the most work exploring the promise of a "geoengineering" method known as solar radiation management.
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Sometimes people sneer that researchers are "playing God," claiming that humans ought not to be interfering with the natural order of things (never mind the fact that we've been doing that, in the form of medicine or agricultural domestication, for millennia).
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There's a lot of imagery and talk here about evolution and playing god, and the constant cycles of life and death have been forcing out this sort of evolution of each of the characters to the point where they realize something is wrong.
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The Hummer's abilities became a marketing ploy: The vehicles were shown off-roading in commercials with the same wonder you might imagine in a spot for a children's toy tank, followed by panning to the children residing over their toy set, playing God.
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For skeptics, experimenting is like playing God with the very building blocks of life; for the curious, it's the slightly sci-fi future of medicine — and in 2018, it's officially entered the beauty world with procedures that call on blood, skin, placenta, and penises as their star ingredients.
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Read: McDonald's Is Giving Away an 18-Karat Gold McNugget So You'll Try Its New Sauces Countless hours of your youth (and your adult life) were probably spent playing God on The Sims: Building mansions, throwing wild parties, setting homes on fire, and drowning people in your backyard pool.
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That was informed partly by the idea that he was playing God and there was a lion and everybody was naked, and mine and Bill's experiences as unemployed actors down the way, and the idiocy and the vanity of actors including ourselves with big storylines and our own lives up until that point.
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Then we get maybe one of the weirdest moments on this show (weirder than the gorilla part) where Clarke enters the room and gets covered in foam (like she's been hit by a pie) then without missing a beat the scene becomes a serious argument about Clarke playing God with her people.
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" Daily Dairy seems to enjoy playing God as much as it plays cheesemaker: In addition to the Amanti Guacamole Cheese, it also produces more than a half-dozen other flavored cheeses, like Amanti Green Pesto, Amanti Red Pesto, Amanti Black Pepper, and a cow-and-goat milk combination that it calls "Life Cheese.
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Complete with an ironically deluded metaphor about a 15th century court dissolved over its tendency to politically oppress its subjects, Cruz, a prolific homophobe in his own right, portrayed YouTube's decision as an attempt at "playing God," while further casting the incident (to be largely forgotten a week from now) as a foretoken of something deeply sinister.
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In Playing God, lawyer Ken Feinberg is the man whose job it is to assign dollar values to human lives in legal settlements while in The Other Side of the Wall—another prize winner—follows Honduran immigrants in Mexico dealing with family life, economic pressures, and the decision of whether to cross the border into America for work.
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If the mockery misfired, it may be because Synthia fits easily into the rhetoric of invented life, the specific kind of whimsy of those who, playing God or not, enjoy playing with words: Dolly, the cloned sheep (named after Dolly Parton, because the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell); cc, the cloned cat; Hercules, the genetically engineered, supermuscular beagle; Eau d'E.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoDemocrats clash at debate over keeping US troops in Mideast Democrats request briefing on intel behind Trump's embassy threat claim Hillicon Valley: Apple, Barr clash over Pensacola shooter's phone | Senate bill would boost Huawei alternatives | DHS orders agencies to fix Microsoft vulnerability | Chrome to phase out tracking cookies MORE has accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of playing God.
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